Female sex bias in Iberian megalithic societies through bioarchaeology, aDNA and proteomics.

ABSTRACT: Uncertainties regarding traditional osteological methods in biological sex estimation can often be overcome with genomic and proteomic analyses. The combination of the three methodologies has been used for a better understanding of the gender-related funerary rituals at the Iberian megalithic cemetery of Panoría. As a result, 44 individuals have been sexed including, for the first time, non-adults. Contrary to the male bias found in many Iberian and European megalithic monuments, the Panoría population shows a clear sex ratio imbalance in favour of females, with twice as many females as males. Furthermore, this imbalance is found regardless of the criterion considered: sex ratio by tomb, chronological period, method of sex estimation, or age group. Biological relatedness was considered as

SUBMITTER: Diaz-Zorita Bonilla M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11420231 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature